Bug 137415

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Now sometimes my internet connection is pretty flaky (e.g. whilst torrenting), and image-heavy sites tend to crawl whilst downloading images.  Sites like GameSpot.com become unusable (they load over 400 images per page, most of them are part of their overly busy CSS and layout) because KHTML does not show the page while downloading images.  Dead images have an empty space the size of the image (or at least what the image size would have been according to the width/height of the img element for example), and this should be applied towards loading images.

A related bug requests that passwords are filled in before images are loaded, and fixing this problem will probably fix that problem as well.

What I am requesting is that KHTML show the page renderred with CSS and image placeholders while the images are downloaded.  Sometimes, I get stuck waiting for a minute or so for just the last damn image to load, but I cannot view the page until kio_http is able to fetch that last damn image (probably just a rounded corner even, argh).

This is especially a problem for those who use dial-up (mainly a problem in the US if anything, but I've seen some nasty DSL and cable connections).